The Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) is commonly used to screen cognitive function in a clinical setting. The measure has been published in over 50 languages; however, the validity and reliability of the MMSE has yet to be assessed with the culturally Deaf elderly population. Participants consisted of 117 Deaf senior citizens, aged 55-89 (M = 69.44, SD = 8.55). Demographic information, including s...

Heritable cancer syndromes affect all ethnicities, however, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds do not attend the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) Familial Cancer Centre (FCC) in the numbers that reflect the diversity of the Victorian population. Despite interpreters routinely organised, there still remains an impediment to attendance. Based on this observation, w...

In the post-war era, Poland has been viewed as a homogeneous country both culturally and linguistically. It not, however, remained immune to developments of globalization, which also reflected in linguistic present century. recent years, Polish public space inundated with numerous foreign language names, signs, slogans, elements advertisements on billboards, English largely foreground, not infr...

Social environments lacking in basic resources— healthy food, safe housing, living-wage jobs, decent schools, supportive social networks, access to health care and other public and private goods and services—are the very environments with the highest public health risk for serious illness and premature death. Understanding the reasons why this happens requires an ecologic approach to population...